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So one of my 7200.11 drives finally died that housed my Hyper-V VM's. I've been meaning to change my server boot/VM drives to a single SSD and this is what I get for procrastination, especially knowing I have 7200.11's and they're not in RAID 1 :rolleyes: . Luckily I have a recent backup...

Samsung offers SSDs with Hardware-based Full Disk Encryption (FDE), you can buy them as an option on Dell Latitude notebooks. I have some Seagate FDE.2 notebook drives that I'm experimenting with. Regardless of what some claim, machines with software encryption do take a noticeable performance...

I think I'm going to give the 2TB Hitachi drives a shot...especially after reading some positive things about them in the owners thread: 2TB Hitachi Owner's Thread

So I have an Adaptec 51245 controller in a machine running Server 2008 (not R2). Any anticipated problems using the new Western Digital Advanced Format "EARS"-model drives in a RAID array? Thanks!

I was frustrated by the same thing. I bit the bullet and bought a Lian-Li PC-A20B in the end and I'm glad I did. Was it really worth $360? Probably not. Am I happy I'm done worrying about what case to buy and am I satisfied with what I got? Yeah, pretty much. It's the nicest case...

I just got the PC-A20B and it's awesome, plenty of space for drives, lots of fans, quiet, monolithic and ready for eATX!

If it makes you feel any better, EVERY single Western Digital drive I have ever had has died on me. I have tried them since the 200MB days. I've had one or multiples of these sizes over the years since I was a kid: 200MB, 540MB, 1.2GB, 6.4GB, 20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 120GB and the last one I bought...

Hey guys, I know a few of you have this RAID enclosure: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817995001 It's the Athena Power BP-SATA3051B SATA RAID backplane. I have had one for over a year and the fan sounds pretty haggard and dying right now and I'd like to swap it out...

I think that's what I'm going to do. I've been looking at the power req. differences and since this is going to be on 24x7 I think I'm going to save some $ on my electricity bill too and go with the e8400.

So I bought an E7200 and tried to install the Hyper-V role on my Server 2008 box and lo and behold, the E7200 doesn't have hardware-assisted virtualization, I thought they all did these days, stupid me! So, I'm returning the E7200 and was considering either an E8400 or a Q6600. I like the...

I just have some old 300GB Maxtors, forget the model. They're a couple years old at least, but work fine. I was going to upgrade to some 750GB drives with the deals going on lately but after I spent a few hours cleaning up all my crap, I realized I don't need more space just yet.

I currently have a 5-drive RAID5 array running with a 3Ware 9500S-8 PCI card on home server. It's currently in an Athlon XP 2600+ system. I'm planning on upgrading my home server soon to run Server2K8 x64 and was going to go Intel-based (E7200 or E8400 possibly) and was looking at...

Do you HAVE to use the Airport Express in repeater mode? If you configure it to be a client on the network (where you can use AirTunes) you can use it with pretty much any router. I am using it on a Netgear router right now in client mode and it works great, I can use AirTunes and the USB port...

I just went though two 2405FPW's - the 3rd was finally the charm! The first one had 9 dead pixels. The second had something caught in between the LCD and backlight. The third was perfect, so I'm happy....at least until it starts making a whine, haha.